{"id":6,"date":"2016-01-17T19:15:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T19:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2020-06-07T13:47:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T17:47:54","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Worst Blog is a side project of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/\">The Worst Bestsellers<\/a>, a podcast where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/fourteenacross\">Kait<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/renatasnacks\">Renata<\/a> read popular books of questionable quality! Here on the blog, we might post essays by ourselves or friends that expand on stuff we discussed in the podcast, book reviews, write-ups of library programs, or whatever other stuff we feel like posting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Bloggers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/fourteenacross\"><strong>KAIT<\/strong><\/a> is\u00a0an aspiring children\u2019s author with a boring day job. She lives in the Boston area where she spends a lot of time having brunch and talking about horror movies, comic books, and kidlit. Her favorite books include\u00a0<em>The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy<\/em> by Douglas Adams,\u00a0<em>The Phantom Tollbooth<\/em> by Norton Juster,\u00a0<em>Good Omens<\/em> by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett,\u00a0<em>When You Reach Me<\/em> by Rebecca Stead,\u00a0<em>Pretty Monsters<\/em> by Kelly Link, and basically anything by David Levithan. When she\u2019s not reading, writing, or brunching, she can be found thinking about X-Men and planning outfits for her next convention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/renatasnacks\"><strong>RENATA<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is a teen services librarian at a public library and a content editor for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/noflyingnotights.com\/\">No Flying No Tights<\/a>. She lives in the Boston area with Duarte, her adorable tyrant of a cat. She is a frequent competitor (and occasional winner) in Moth StorySlams. Her favorite books include\u00a0<em>Dramarama<\/em>\u00a0by E. Lockhart,\u00a0<em>A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius<\/em>\u00a0by Dave Eggers,\u00a0<em>Me Talk Pretty One Day<\/em>\u00a0by David Sedaris,\u00a0<em>Bad Feminist<\/em>\u00a0by Roxane Gay,\u00a0<em>Akata Witch<\/em>\u00a0by Nnedi Okorafor,\u00a0<em>The Partly-Cloudy Patriot<\/em>\u00a0by Sarah Vowell,\u00a0<em>White Cat<\/em>\u00a0by Holly Black,\u00a0<em>Wild\u00a0<\/em>by Cheryl Strayed, and pretty much any X-Men comic.<\/p>\n<p>* <em>Worst Bestsellers\/Worst Blog<\/em> <em>is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;node=1000&amp;site-redirect=&amp;tag=worstbests0e-20&amp;linkId=Z2A4ORUYFZJ4UA6Q\">Amazon.com<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(But no pressure, we\u2019re also happy if you get these items from your local library or independent bookstore.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Worst Blog is a side project of The Worst Bestsellers, a podcast where Kait &amp; Renata read popular books of questionable quality! Here on the blog, we might post essays by ourselves or friends that expand on stuff we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}